'Lightyear' Hits Disney Plus Tonight. Here's When (and Why It Took 6 Weeks) Lightyear, the first Pixar movie in years to hit theaters instead of going straight to Disney Plus, starts streaming early Wednesday. Here's when (and why). Lightyear, the primary Pixar movie for the reason that COVID-19 pandemic started to hit theaters, is coming to Disney Plus greater than six weeks after it